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Griffin Daily News Monday, April 12,1976
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Girls smile
at mirrors
To set up a hidden camera in a restroom is a bit much,
maybe. But it has been done. And the scholars who undertook
the experiment learned that numerous girls rehearse their
smiles in mirrors while men rarely do so. When looking in mir
rors, men nod, if they approve, then walk away. Women,
though, frequently flash a smile or two before they move on.
If all the dirt surfaces on this earth were shoved together
into one big land mass, it still wouldn't cover but about 75 per
cent as much area as the Pacific Ocean.
Lot of people don't realize that about 200,000 television
sets a year nationwide burst into flames.
QUERY FROM CLIENT
Q. "Wasn't it E. W. Howe who said, 'The modern husband
is a do-it-yourself man with a get-it-done wife'?"
A. No, one Jim Kelly said that. E. W. Howe said, "A man
should be taller, older, heavier, uglier and hoarser than his
wife."
Don't wash rice.
Now there's a solar-energy electronic wristwatch on the
market that’s supposed to tell the correct time for 126 years
without resetting.
I reported I liked Spoonerism No. 873-B, "Hyperdeemic
nerdles," but a Washington lady says she prefers the one about
"the daggie shog who was bossing the cridge over the pill
mond with a meice of peat in his mipping drouth."
MURDER
The woman who murders her husband is not usually moti
vated by money. It happens. More often, though, she's
prompted either by jealousy or by an infatuation with a
different man. Such is the claim of a criminologist.
"California winemakers don't repeat don't add sugar to
their wines," says the Wine Institute's Brian St. Pierre. "That's
against state and federal law. French winemakers add sugar."
Not only is the hummingbird the only bird that can fly
backwards, it's the only one that also can fly straight up, down
and sideways. Today's open question is: Can the hummingbird
fly upside down? Don’t know, don't know.
Why the mother with three or more children tends to live
longer than the mother with an only child remains unclejr, but
statistics show such to be the case.
Almost invariably the bride who gets a clothesdryer as a
wedding present does so at her own request... Do vou realize
that if it didn't rain anywhere on earth for a year, the ocean
levels would drop by almost four feet? ... If there's one gun
in the household, chances are far better than 50-50 that there's
more than one gun in the household.
That citizen who eats the most sugar is the Icelander...
One in every 2,000 babies is born deaf... Average human fin
gernail grows 12/100ths of an inch per month.
Addrais mall to L. M. Boyd, P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, rx 76102
Copyright 1976 L. M. Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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"She's at the awkward age ... too young for Medicare and
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Monday, April 12,
the 103rd day of 1976 with 263 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
full phase.
The morning star is Venus.
The evening stars are Mars,
Jupiter, Mercury and Saturn.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Aries.
American statesman Henry
Clay was bom April 12, 1777.
On this day in history:
In 1861, the Civil War began
when Confederate troops
opened fire on Ft. Sumter, S.C.
In 1945, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt died at Warm
Springs, Ga. About three hours
later, Vice President Harry
Truman was sworn in as chid
executive.
In 1954, Dr. Robert Oppen
heimer, referred to as “the
father of the atom bomb,” was
suspended by the U.S. Atomic
Energy Commission as a
possible security risk.
America’s rebels could not
hope to challenge the
strongest navy in the world,
Great Britain. Single colonial
warships were put into action
and with the limited means
available, the Americans did
surprisingly well. They fought
fiercely, captured British
goods and drove up the British
insurance rates, The World
Almanac reveals.
Thoughts
For thou dost meet him with
goodly blessings; thou dost set
a crown of fine gold upon his
head. He asked life of thee;
thou gavest it to him, length of
days for ever and ever. —
Psalm 21:3,4.
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to this page, and its columns are open to every subscriber. Letters to the editor are
published every Wednesday.
Clean and healthy
The City of Griffin’s spring cleanup
drive is moving right along and has at
tracted the approval and commendation of
the Spalding County Board of Health.
At a regular meeting, the board em
phasized “the close relationship between
cleanliness of our homes and business
establishments and our health.” Then it
noted, “A clean environment is a primary
step in the control of rats, flies, roaches,
Good
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news
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Good news on food prices in Washington,
the Agriculture Department said this week
that food price inflation has slowed
drastically. Experts had predicted that
retail food prices would rise about two
percent in the first half of 1976, but
U.S.D.A. economist Don Paarlberg said
prices held steady in the first three months
and may increase only slightly between
now and the end of June. He said if crops
prospects are good, the food price increase
for all of 1976 will be the smallest in four
years. Mighty good news, but it will be
better when it becomes a fact.
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People in Griffin
We agree completely with the wife of a
retired Army man who observed the other
evening that “Griffin is full of interesting
people.”
As matter of fact, every person on earth
is interesting, and we are convinced that
given sufficient time a trained reporter
could find a story to write about every
one of us.
That is why here in the paper we have
been featuring reports about people, in
terviews with them, telling their
backgrounds and the things you would like
to know about them. Oh sure, we keep
reporting the same old crime news, the
same old shockers, the same old govern
ment reports. But the most interesting
Tending to his job
Governor Busbee has contacted a
number of friends and asked them to keep
his name out of this year’s legislative and
congressional campaigns, and we heartily
approve his request. Several past
Governors we have known, including
Jimmy Carter, Lester Maddox and Carl
Sanders in that order interfered directly
(or tried to do so) in legislative races when
What did Jesus
mean by ‘a sword’?
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: What did Jesus
mean by a “a sword” when He said in
Matthew 10:34, “Do not think that I have
come to bring peace on earth; I have not
come to bring peace, but a sword”? —
L.A.C.
DEAR L.A.C.: There is a reference in
Ephesians 6:17 to “the sword of the Spirit,
which is the word of God.” Another
reference to the same sword is found in
Hebrews 4:12 (Revised Standard Ver
sion): “The word of God is living and
active, sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of
joints and marrow, and discerning the
thoughts and intentions of the heart.”
If you look at the world today you will
see how Christ has used His word to divide
all peoples, as though by a great sword
point
Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-633*
Fairness to all
and mosquitoes. Cleanliness is also a
method of reducing such pests as redbugs,
ticks, fleas, slugs, and termites. Lade of
cleanliness is also a source of foul odors,
and may furnish a hiding place for
snakes.”
Thus we have practical as well as
esthetic reasons to clean Griffin, and it is a
good thing the city with the cooperation of
its residents is doing just that
thing on this earth is its people. They are
what the world is all about. People and
their births and their marriages, their
children and their schooling, their jobs and
their hobbies, their sports and their
worship, and at last their deaths are what
make news.
Undoubtedly this attractive woman who
observed that Griffin is full of interesting
people noted the same thing the many
places she lived as an Army man’s wife.
Yet none were more so than those right
here in Griffin, and it says a lot for the
town that she and her husband who had no
past ties here and who could have lived
anywhere they wished chose this as their
home.
Governor.
The people of the state are perfectly
capable of choosing legislators and
congressmen without pressure from the
Governor’s Office and we like the way
George Busbee is tending to the job to
which he was elected instead of meddling
in local politics.
thrust. There is surely no greater division
in the world than the one that exists bet
ween the believer and the nonbeliever. As
soon as you commit your life to Jesus
Christ and receive Him as your Lord and
Savior, you stand out as different and
separate from all unbelievers. That step of
faith on your part might even make a
difference between you and members of
your own family, as is suggested in
Matthew 10:35.
The greater your commitment to the
teaching of God’s Word, the wider will be
the division between your way of life and
that of the world; but despite this division
you will still love your fellow men and
women, and seek to win them to faith in
Christ. The greatest commandments are
to love God and to love our neighbor
(Matthew 22:37-39).
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"If we left the country for next year, would that
__ mean I could skip that flu shot?"
Each person
must decide
path of life
BY BERTHA M. COMBS
Life is the pathway between two eternities. It is up to the
individual the way he lives his life whether a good life of
righteousness or an evil life of sin. Each person must
decide which way his soul shall go. Each one must decide
whether he will climb the highway or grope the low way.
The pathway of life leads in different directions according
to the desires of the individual from the cradle to the
grave.
The way of life may sometimes seem as rugged as the
climbing of a mountain with jagged and rocky cliffs.
Mountains seem to rise up at the unexpected time when
things are already going wrong. Each person experiences
troubles and worries. The true believer should not expect
to travel on smooth ground always but must accept the
mountains of impossiblity. One begins to climb without his
being conscious of the climbing. Each day the individual
is marching toward eternal existence.
Step by step the individual goes through chances. Round
by round the high soul goes up the mountain of life. Each
step must be treaded carefully or the foot might slip to
ruin and the daily chores of life one moment at a time.
Each minute is filled with opportunities if only the
individual will recognize his golden destruction. Every
person has trials and troubles, worries and
disappointments in life. These are a part of life.
Misfortune is no respecter of persons.
Many people never attempt to progress. They never try
to rise from whatever state of life they find themselves.
Some people never worry to improve themselves
materially nor spiritual. So they grope the low way of life.
These people are groping with no thought of direction.
These are those who keep downward desires. They are
satisfied to stay where they are and to never aspire.
Some people remain on the misty slopes of
misunderstanding without effort to seek the Holy
Scriptures, to seek God’s righteousness, to seek duty for
righteous living. Jesus tells us in His Sermon on the
Mount: “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the
gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction,
and many there be which go in there at: Because strait is
the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life,
and few there be that find it” St. Matthew 7:13-14.
A few people climb the mountain of life. Some ascend
beyond the masses. Some people work and never stop to
count the cost. These who accept Jesus as Saviour and
dedicate themselves to live by God’s Commandments are
“Climbing the Mountain of Life.” The true mountain
climber must have faith in himself that he can climb and
even cross the chasm that might be between the mountain
peaks. He must believe that he is able to climb for peak to
peak but always upward in direction. He must believe in
the power of the Almighty God the Everlasting Father.
Service to humanity is a sign of Christian love. Without
love there can be no strength and without strength there
can be no climbing. True strength comes from God, the
strength of love and care for others. In “Climbing the
Mountain of Life” the true believer must keep his mind
stayed on Jesus if he will find perfect peace and rest for
his soul, even the peace that Jesus gives all who will come
unto Him.
Many times the pathway of life leads through trials and
tribulations that are so hard to bear that the “keeping on”
seems impossible. The believer through the power of God
is able to pass the test of troubles and trials. When the
believer renders true Christian service he can soar and
find joy of peace and love. The high souls climb the
highway, the low souls grope the low, and in between the
rest drift to and fro. Each person must decide the way his
soul shall go in life and in eternity.
“I have held many things in
my hands, and I have lost
them all: but whatever I have
placed in God’s hands, that I
still possess.” — Martin
Luther, German religious
reformer.
DAILY NEWS
Quimby Melton, Jr., Editor and Publisher
Cary Reeves,
General Manager
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Quotes
“I believe in the dignity of
labor, whether with head or
hand; that the world owes
every man an opportunity to
make a living.” — John D.
Rockefeller Jr., American
financier.
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