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Griffin Daily News Tuesday, March 2,1976
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I. M. BOYD
FIRST TENDERFOOT
GABORS AND HUSBANDS
GUN EVERY 30 SECONDS
A calf raised in a corral before turned loose on the open
range was inclined to limp a little. So it, not man, was the first
of the living things hereabouts to be called a tenderfoot. You
already know that it, too, was the first to be referred to as a
greenhorn.
In Japan, you can rent a room by the hour rather than by
the night, if you desire. You've got to desire, sure enough.
Hourly rate is the equivalent of about $lO.
The communications statisticians are under the impression
that you made about 779 phone calls last year.
THE GABORS
Q. "When I talk about the Gabors, I mean Mother Jolie plus
Eva, Magda and Zsa Zsa. How many husbands have they had,
total?”
A. Just 20. At this writing.
Women who grocery shop just before lunch spend an
average of $7.50 a week more than women who shop just
after lunch ... If you arrived in this world before October of
1929, you turned up before the first baby ever to be born in
an airplane ... Don't know how many black women are
married to white men in this country, but do know 16,419
black men are married to white women.
Ask anybody where Adam lived, and you'll be told the Gar
den of Eden. What few realize, though, is he only lived there
12 hours.
FRANCHISES
Understand a lot of the world's big towns are beginning to
look alike. What's being wiped out, I'm told, is the individual
ity of Tokyo's Ginza, New York City's Broadway, London's
Piccadilly and France's Champs Elysees. Blame franchises. At
least, that's what the correspondents blame. Specifically, they
say most of the old intersections are beginning to carry such
names as Holiday, Sheraton, Hilton, McDonald's, Kentucky
Fried, Shakey's, Pepsi, Coke. To these, add high rise office
buildings, supermarkets and shopping centers. Man, I don't
want to turn into one of those negative souls who sits around
mooning about the old days, but this franchise thing tends to
turn you sour, unless maybe you've got a piece of it.
Sir, do you remember at what age you first started to
shave? Age 15 is average.
Somebody trades something to somebody for a handgun
every 30 seconds, please note.
Not even all the members of the Elks Lodge know the ori
ginal Elks were a bunch of New York City actors who called
themselves the Jolly Corks.
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Copyright 1976 UM. Boyd
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Tuesday, March 2,
the 62nd day of 1976 with 304 to
follow.
The moon is moving toward
the first quarter.
The morning stars are
Mercury and Venus.
The evening stars are Mars,
Jupiter and Saturn.
Those bom on this day are
under the sign of Pisces.
Texas frontier hero Sam
Houston was bom March 2,
1783.
Also on this day in history:
In 1899, Congress established
Mt. Rainier National Park in
Washington state.
In 1927, Babe Ruth of the
New York Yankees signed for
$70,000, the highest paid at the
time with practically no income
taxes.
In 1945, units of the U.S. 9th
Army reached the Rhine River
opposite Dusseldorf, Germany.
In\ 1975, three men set off
explosions that destroyed a
multimillion dollar rubber fac
tory in Shelton, Conn. No one
was injured.
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times and the particular areas
they serve . . . adjusting to
changing needs of readers.
With such adaptability, newspa
per readership remains con
stant from season to season.
Thoughts
“And which of you by being
anxious can add a cubit to his
span of life? If then you are
not able to do as small a thing
as that, why are you anxious
about the rest?’’ — Luke
12:25,26.
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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.
Premature spring
March began sweetly in Griffin like a
lamb. So the saying goes, it will depart like
a lion. Be this as it may, the glorious
premature spring has had people working
in their yards, playing baseball early,
driving about with car windows open, and
generally enjoying themselves.
Over in Locust Grove a man saw a flock
of geese heading north the other day. It
was a couple of weeks early for that, so
Businesslike
The story in the paper the other af
ternoon about the dollar value of the
Spalding County Courthouse, jail, and
public works camp surprised a lot of us.
According to Spalding tax assessor
Virgil Phillips, the Courthouse has a
depreciated value of 1560,000, and it would
take $1.6-million to replace it. That is
almost three times the depreciated value!
The jail, he reported to the County Com
mission, would require $416,641 to replace
and has a depreciated value of $112,200.
The work camp would require $412,672 to
replace, and its depreciated value is
Have you noticed how culture, like
spring, is bursting out all around?
Just for example and not all inclusive:
Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this
week the Footlight Players are presenting
dinner theater at the Dovedown Center,
and the Grand Jazz Band of Griffin will
play New Orleans type music. The Utility
Club’s Popcorn Players are continuing
their performances which will include all
the elementary schools before completing
Unmitigated gall
Here is an editorial from the Savannah
Morning News which so accurately ex
presses our own view that we wish we had
written it:
We fail to find anything funny in Sen.
Roscoe Dean’s St. Valentine’s Day stunt
last Friday, a stunt obviously intended to
embarrass the Senate’s only woman
member who successfully sponsored a
resolution to censure Mr. Dean the
previous week.
Mr. Dean presented Sen. Virginia
Shapard a big box of Valentine candy,
accompanied by a poem which read:
“Roses are red, violets are blue, Virginia
our lady, we still love you.” Mr. Dean
intoned the poem and said he was
presenting the gift “on behalf of the
Senate.”
WE THINK it presumptuous that Mr.
Rules about
what to eat
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: Recently I have
been reading the book of Leviticus. I find
all these instructions confusing, especially
about what to eat and what not to eat. Can
you explain? — L.E.
DEAR L.E.: In the Old Testament, God
chose the Jewish people to be His
“special” people. As such, they were to be
holy and separate from the unbelieving
nations around them. Their holiness was to
be expressed, in part, by obedience to the
laws God had given to them. Many of their
dietary laws show an amazing parallel
with modem knowledge about nutrition
and diet.
As time went on, many Jews began to
misunderstand the purpose of these laws.
Rather than guides by which God’s people
were to live, they were interpreted as rules
that must be obeyed to earn God’s favor.
The New Testament teaches, however,
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227 4334
perhaps the legend about the groundhog
and more hard winter ahead may be
wrong this time. Experience, though,
leads one to believe that storms will come
before April, and that they will make April
all the sweeter.
In the meantime, if the weather con
tinues like this in Griffin, do you suppose
people will be coming up here from
Florida to enjoy the sun?
$247,600.
Total replacement values of courthouse,
jail, and work camp thus add up to almost
two and a half million dollars, but total
insurance coverage on all three presently
amounts to less than half a million.
This report shows several things. One is
that the people of Spalding own some very
valuable property. Another is that it is
under-insured. Still another is that the
commissioners are acting in a businesslike
way by taking stock of the county’s
physical assets and protecting them more
reasonably.
Culture
the season March 12. Last week the Navy
Band played at Gordon and this week
Gordon has a play. The Augusta Opera
Company is scheduled to perform in
Griffin next week. Arts and crafts are
receiving more attention in the schools.
Thus we have the performing arts, the art
of music, and the visual arts all active and
thriving in and around Griffin. These add
meaning and pleasure to life and are good
for the town.
Dean would speak “on behalf of the
Senate” in saying “we still love you.”
Indeed, the Senate backed her censure
resolution by a vote of 42-14, which is in
dicative that she is in pretty good standing
with her fellow lawmakers.
We also think Lt. Gov. Zell Miller, who
allowed such a ceremony to take place,
was out of line in going along with Mr.
Dean’s antic.
MRS. SHAPARD was the only member
of the Senate who felt strongly enough
about Mr. Dean’s travel reimbursement
claims to indicate publicly that they
reflected upon the integrity of the Senate
and to insist that some official action be
taken For Mr. Dean to cast her now in the
role of a vindicated villain is, in our
opinion, the height (or depth) of un
mitigated gall.
that salvation does not come through
obedience to certain ceremonial laws and
regulations, since no many can obey them
perfectly. Instead, Jesus Christ is the
fulfillment of the law. Salvation comes
because of God’s grace as we put our
personal faith and trust in Jesus Christ as
Lord and Saviour.
While these ceremonial regulations in
the Old Testament are no longer binding,
the underlying principle is still valid. We'
are still called to be God’s people and to
live lives of righteousness. “For Christ is
the end of the law for righteousness to
everyone that believeth” (Romans 10:4).
But the moral law is expressed in the
Ten Commandments, and the Sermon on
the Mount is still in force. Jesus said: “I
did not come to destroy the law but to
fulfill the law.”
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©1976 by NEA. Inc.
“I KNEW I should have attended that meeting
tonight. They made me chairperson of a com
mittee!"
By Don Oakley
Don Oakley
Where will this
nice guy finish?
There are drawbacks to being known as a "nice guy.”
What other President could accuse Congress of “losing its
guts” because it refused to okay the spending of a paltry few
millions to counter the Soviet-backed faction in Angola’s civil
war and elicit a collective response on the order of, “Yeh, sure.
Jerry, and how’re the wife and kids?”
Had Richard Nixon and not Gerald Ford made the same ac
cusation, there would have been all kinds of expressions of
outrage on Capitol Hill. But Richard Nixon was not a “nice
guy.”
Even Henry Kissinger, who certainly has no reputation for
nice-guyness, shows increasing signs of frustration over the
administration’s inability to get anyone to take it seriously,
especially when it warns of the dire threat posed by Soviet
machinations in Africa.
Which suggests that while President Ford’s likable but un
convincing image has something to do with the present mood
of the nation and the Congress in the area of foreign affairs,
the real fact of the matter is that Americans simply used up
all the trust they once had in their leaders in Vietnam. There's
no more left for Angola.
There is, moreover, a general feeling that there is
something slightly crazy about pushing high-level detente with
the Soviet Union while at the same time peddling the line that
the security and prestige of the United States depend upon the
outcome of a sideshow called Angola. The cry of “Wolf!”
lacks a certain urgency when the shepherd — the Secretary of
State — is seen in smiling conference with the wolf himself in
the wolf’s own lair.
Nevertheless, it is rather amazing that Gerald Ford can get
away with the most provocative statements and still be
thought of as “basically a nice guy.” Whether this is enough to
influence voters and win elections, of course, is the looming
question.
Oil bind eases, but ...
Signs abound that the once-monolithic oil cartel — OPEC —
is coming apart.
Because of reduced consumption by the petroleum
importing countries, production among the petroleum
exporting countries has plummeted. Saudi Arabia’s output is
down 30 per cent, that of Iran between 12 and 17 per cent
Kuwait has trimmed its oil price by 10 cents a barrel, as has
Iran, which shortly before had threatened to raise its price to
meet a budget deficit brought about by reckless spending on
military armaments. Indonesia has cut its oil by as much as $1
a barrel.
In this country, the trend is reflected in a drop in the price of
a gallon of gasoline by a few pennies in recent days.
But no one should rush to the conclusion that the good old
days of abundant and relatively cheap fuel are coming back,
or if they do come back, that they will be here to stay.
It is not conservation but recession that accounts for most of
the reduced petroleum consumption by the industrialized
nations. Unless we contemplate a permanent state of business
stagnation, this situation cannot last. As economic activity
recovers in the West, petroleum consumption must inevitably
rise.
There is already at least one sign that we have forgotten the
lesson of the oil embargo: Sales of small cars are sharply
down and the automakers are hard-pressed to meet demand
for medium- and large-size models.
The current oil glut has given us an opportunity to devise a
sane national energy policy free from the pressure of im
mediate crisis. It would be foolish to think of it as anything but
a respite, a temporary phenomenon.
CARNIVAL by Dick Turner
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