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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, February 10,1976
DARKEST AFRICA
Copley News Service
L >l. BOYD
HEAVY WOMEN CRAVE LOVE
BEAST WITH FOUR KNEES
THE ORIGINAL POPSICLE
Question arises as to whether overweight women engage
more frequently than the thinner girls in that thing called
physical romance. No, our Love and War man has turned up a
doctoral dissertation which purports to prove that the pleas
ingly plump and the slender ladies are just about equally active
in this matter. Their desires, however, are not quite equal,
evidently. The study indicates the women with the excess
pounds are more inclined than the lighter girls to crave such
passionate encounters.
ELVIS
Q. "Is Elvis Presley a tenor or a baritone?"
A. A baritone. But he's niftier on the higher notes than on
the lower notes.
It's said the only animal in the world with four knees is the
elephant.
Hold on, don't carry your disposable butane cigarette light
er aboard that airplane. It's liable to explode at the high al
titude and blow liquid fire all over the place. Dangerous. Very
dangerous.
Did you ever see a picture of Abraham Lincoln splitting
rails with an ax? So have I. A technical error, that. Abe and all
rail splitters of the day used wedges and mauls for such work.
But never axes.
CAESAR SALAD
Everybody knows it was the late Caesar Cardini who in
vented the famous Caesar salad. But few realize it was Chet L.
Switell who made said salad famous. Chet is a seasoned public
relations man who has dealt with projects of such notables as
Charlie Chaplin and Howard Hughes among others. It was Chet
who told me how Frank Epperson one night sipped orange
soda on his front porch, then put the half-filled paper cup
down on the railing, placed a mislaid teaspoon in it, and went
inside to get warm. Bitter cold came. Next morning young
Frank found the frozen concoction which eventually led to
the sale yearly of three billion popsicles.
Can you identify that single substance more than any other
that supplies food for the human race? Say starch.
No, I'm not the one who claimed Americans have picked up
an extra three inches of spread across their backsides in recent
years. The American Seating Company of Grand Rapids,
Mich., disclosed that.
Address malt to L.M. Boyd, P.O. Box 17076, Fort Worth. TX 76102
Copyright 1976 L.M. Boyd
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Tuesday, Feb. 10,
the 41st day of 1976 with 325 to
follow.
The moon is between its first
quarter and the full phase.
The morning stars are
Mercury and Venus.
The evening stars are Mars,
Jupiter and Saturn.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Aquarius.
American journalist William
Allen White was born on Feb.
10, 1868. American actor
entertainers Jimmy Durante
(1893) and Robert Wagner
(1930) also were born on this
date.
On this day in history:
In 1942, the American auto
industry shut down its civilian
car assembly lines for the
duration of World War II and
converted to military produc
tion.
In 1962, U 2 spy plane pilot
Francis Gary Powers was
returned to the United States in
exchange for Soviet spy Rudolf
Abel.
RIC€NT€NNIAL
TRACTS —
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The nation’s first President,
George Washington establish
ed the precedence of a chief
executive serving only two
consecutive terms, an un
written tradition until
Congress made it law after
the death of President
Roosevelt in 1945, the World
Almanac notes. Washington
refused a third consecutive
term in 1797 and retired to
Mount Vernon until his death
two years later at the age of
67.
Thoughts
Happy are you who sow
beside all waters, who let the
feet of the ox and the ass
range free. — Isaiah 32:20.
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Editor
Telephone 227 4334
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.
At last
The long-awaited and oft-delayed
occupancy of the new emergency section
of Griffin-Spalding Hospital has arrived,
and the community is glad to have the
improved facilities available.
Considerably more people than every
human being in Griffin and Spalding
County have died or been injured in the
Guatemalan disaster.
At this writing, the mounting toll from
last week’s quake and series of tremors
was 15,000 dead and 37,000 injured. At least
220,000 were homeless, and even these
grim figures were expected to increase
Good, bad news
Good news for Americans who plan to go
to Spain: The Madrid government is
devaluing the currency so that a dollar
now buys 66 and a half pesetas instead of
Good advice
Here is an editorial from the London
Daily Telegraph which addresses itself to
every American:
It is time America’s friends spoke out,
with some nasty questions to the so-called
“liberal” East Coast establishment. By
that we mean sections of the press,
sections of Congress, television com
mentators and comedians, university
pundits and a lot of other people who may
think there is a dollar to be made out of
denigrating their country’s institutions
and leaders. We all know about the
“trauma” of Vietnam and Watergate, but
it’s getting a bit boring. How long has the
rest of the free world got to put up with
these tender-minded people recovering
from their “trauma?” Indefinitely?
America is accustomed to, and has
merited, a good deal of deference from her
allies. But deference can be a disservice.
The United States should know that her
European cousins and allies are appalled
and disgusted by the present open disarray
of her public life. The self-criticism and
self-destructive tendencies are running
mad, with no countervailing force in sight.
She has no foreign policy any more,
Do Christians iH answer
become angels? J
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: When Christians
die and go to heaven, do they become
angels? Jesus seems to Imply this In Luke
20:36: “Neither can they die any more: for
they are equal unto the angels; and are the
children of God, being the children of the
resurrection.” — J.B.
DEAR J. 8.: No. When we die we do not
become angels, nor does the passage you
quoted teach this. Perhaps a modem •
translation would help: “And they can no
longer die; for they are like the angels
(New International Version). When we go
to be with our Lord upon death, we are
“like” the angels in that we are not subject
What the public needs now is an
established clinic as well as emergency
department which because there is no
clinic has to serve as one.
Disaster
with additional reports from isolated
places.
It is all but impossible to picture such
vast tragedy, but here is an instance where
foreign aid and help of every kind are
definitely in order from the government of
the United States and from private sources
as well.
60. This would be more impressive except
for the fact that the same dollar in the
U.S.A, will buy only 48 cents worth of what
it could in 1949.
because Congress will not allow it Her
intelligence arm, the CIA, is being gutted
and rendered inoperative, the names of its
staff being published so that they can be
murdered. Her President and secretary of
state are being hounded, not for what they
do but simply because they are people
there, to be pulled down for the fun of it
We hope and believe that the vicious
antics of the liberal East Coast establish
ment, which are doing all this untold
harm, do not reflect the feelings of the
mass of the country. But it is a matter for
wonder. Is the country as a whole
becoming deranged? Surely not. Perhaps
the presential election later this year will
clear the air. Yet that is still 10 months
away, and in the meantime there is all the
campaigning to be gone through. Please
America, for God’s sake, pull yourself
together.
EDITORS NOTE: We recognize that we
here in America could offer equally good
advice to the English on how to straighten
things out in their own country, but such
recognition does not lessen the value of the
advice from there to here.
to death anymore, and we will be filled
with praise to God as they are.
This is a thrilling promise that Jesus
gives us! Because Christ has conquered
death through His resurrection, we need
no longer fear death. Instead, when we put
our trust and faith in Jesus Christ, we
know that death is but the gateway to
eternal life, which is wonderful beyond our
imagination. “Behold, what manner of
love the Father hath bestowed upon us,
that we should be called the sons of God...
and it doth not yet appear what we shall
be: but we know that, when he shall ap
pear, we shall be like him; for we shall see
him as he is” (I John 3:1,2).
Berry’s World
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1976 by me
"Hubert looks good, even though he must be
going through a very difficult time—being a
‘noncandidate'!"
f Don Oakley
Obstacles in path
t 0 P eace w ’ th Cuba
By Don Oakley
Cleveland industrialist Cyrus Eaton has always been a kind
of one-man “Fair Play for Cuba Committee,’’ urging
friendship between the United States and the island country 90
miles from Florida.
His latest visit to Cuba, says Eaton, has reinforced his long
held conviction that “the American giant is making a grievous
mistake in continuing to bully the tiny but enterprising
island.”
The net effect of U.S. opposition has been to stiffen Cuba's
resolve to succeed, he says, while cutting ourselves off from a
source of lucrative trade.
This is no doubt true and may be only the most obvious of a
number of reasons why it should be time to end the 16-year
U.S.-Cuban cold war. But there are also a number of obstacles
in the way of re-establishing diplomatic and trade relations
between our two countries, and not all of them are at
tributable to American delight in “bullying” Cuba.
For one thing, while Fidel Castro has apparently abandoned
his goal of exporting revolution to the rest of Latin America,
some 10,000 Cuban troops today are serving as lackies of Rus
sian imperialism in Angola.
This is understandable, perhaps. Castro is hopelessly in
hock to the Soviet Union and the Cuban economy is still being
subsidized by the Kremlin to the tune of $1 million a day. Ex
porting cannon fodder to Angola (the Cubans are no more
"volunteers" than were the Chinese peasants who swept into
Korea in 1950) is one way he can pay back his benefactors.
Eaton, in fact, would probably argue that if the U.S. had not
been so mean to Castro in the late 1950 s he never would have
turned to the Soviets.
Not so easily dismissed, however, is Cuba's outspoken sup
port of Puerto Rican nationalists.
Castro knows as well as anyone else that these fanatics, who
killed four people in a bombing in New York last year, repre
sent no one but themselves, having been massively repudiated
in a 1967 referendum. He also knows that the Puerto Ricans
could freely vote to change their status anytime they wished
— something his own people have never had the opportunity to
do.
Castro’s attempts to capitalize on this nonexistent issue, us
ing it to bait and harass the U.S. in the United Nations, is hard
ly the behavior of a man desirous of creating a warm relations
with Americans.
Cyrus Eaton's pacifistic heart is in the right place, but when
it comes to dealing with the Communist world, especially
Cuba, he has an unfortunate habit of letting his hopes run away
with his better judgment
Second to none
In terms of performance, productivity and cooperation, the
American worker rates second to none, reports International
Management magazine.
Responding to a survey made by The Conference Board, a
business research organization, international executives said
that high productivity and general availability offset U.S.
workers’ high pay and made them a better all-around bargain
than the workers of other countries, although they also gave
high marks to German, Canadian, Japanese, Belgian, French,
Dutch and Brazilian workers.
Low grades were given to workers in the United Kingdom,
Italy, Australia and Argentina. The British, especially, were
criticized for labor shortages, low productivity, union militan
cy and relatively high cost — which may be why the sun has
not only set on the British empire but seems to be sinking in
Britain itself.
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CARNIVAL by Dick Turner
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“But you gotta EXPECT trouble from a new kid, Mom! It takes
about a week to make friends!”
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Cary Reeves, Bill Knight,
General Manager Executive Editor
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