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Danger-slippery driving conditions!
L. M. BOYPr
The backers of
Capt. Columbus
History somehow ignores Martin and Vicente Pinzon,
more's the pity. Those two brothers owned and captained the
Pinta and the Nina, the ships that accompanied Christopher
Columbus on the Santa Maria during the New Wo r ld discovery
voyage. It wasn't Spain's Queen Isabella who put up the most
money for that trip. It was Martin and Vicente. Thev were the
bigger financial backers, contributing two of the ships as well
as the costs of sailing them. Columbus was the fleet com
mander, all right. His pay ran about S3OO a year Martin and
Vicente each got only approximately $l6O a year. And the
crewmen under all three of them made do with something in
the neighborhood of $2.50 a month each. It's trie that
Columbus was the conversationalist who won the Queen's
official sanction. But the bread-and-butter boys, tne Pinzons,
were the real worthies who came up with most of the floating
stock and the bodies.
THE CHINESE'MA'
Q. "In Chinese, too, doesn't 'ma' mean mother?"
A. In Mandarin it does. And it also means horse, depending
on how you sing it.
The livelier the animal, the faster the heaitbeat right? Usu
ally. But not in the case of the hare and the rabbit. Figure the
quick hare has a heartbeat of 64 per minute. The beat of the
slower rabbit runs 200 per minute.
An eighth of the people in this country have to gel rid of
their own garbage. Th iy live in places where the boys with the
compacting trucks or whatever just don't show up.
ALLIGATORS AND PUMPKINS
Was reported that alligators are native to only two places in
this world - the Gulf Coast of the United States and China's
Yangtze River. What's a'so true is that the pumpkin was native
both to this country and to China. Not squash, however.
Even though it's of the same family as the pumpkin, it's solely
North Ameiican. Mystery is why two such living things as the
alligator and the pumpkin flourished in so widely separated
spots, while even a family member of one of them, like the
squash, failed to travel until modern times. Pretty profound
puzzle. I lay awake at night sometimes, tossing, turning, think
ing about it.
Studies show those college scholars in the top third of their
graduating classes likewise wind up in the top third of their
companies'-pay scales.
As previously reported, you can figure a natural blonde
may have up to 180,000 hairs on her head. Calculate a
brunette at about 120.000, more or less. But how do you
account for the fact that the redhead only has something in
the neighborhood of 50,000?
For a hundred years or more, the citizenry steadily moved
off the farms to find jobs in the cities. It has been the national
population trend longer than anybody alive can remember.
That's all changed now. In the last five years, the people have
been moving back into the country. In the first three years of
this decade, the rural newcomers outnumbered the city new
comers by more than a million. Looks as though just about
everybody wants a little piece of land out in the boondocks to
live offen the fat of.
Address mall to L. M. Boyd, P. o. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102
Copyright 1976 L. M. Boyd
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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“Thereverence isn't here. He's out doing unto others!"
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press Internatlonl
Today is Tuesday, April 13,
the 104th day of 1976 with 262 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
full phase.
The morning star is Venus.
The evening stars are Mer
cury, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Aries.
Frank Woolworth, founder of
the five-and-dime stores, was
born April 13,1852.
On this day in history :
In 1865, Union Gen. William
Sherman took Raleigh, N.C.,
ending his Civil War “March to
the Sea.”
In 1934, in the depths of the
depression, 4.7 million Ameri
can families were reported to
be receiving welfare payments.
gjCCNTCNNIAL
sSlssel
In the spring of 1781, the
Spanish Governor of
Louisiana. Bernardo de
Galvez, led a siege on the
British-held Fort George at
Pensacola, Fla. In a brilliant
naval maneuver, Galvez land
ed 7,000 troops on March 9. On
April 28 the Spaniards broke
through the outer for
tifications and by May 8 they
succeeded in dropping a shell
on a powder magazine. The
explosion killed or disabled
100 of the 900 British
defenders and brought the
fort's capitulation the next
day, The World Almanac
notes.
Thoughts
* Jesus then said to the Jews
who had believed in him, “If
you continue in my word, you
are truly my disciples, and
you will know the truth, and
the truth will make you free.”
- John 8:31,32.
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Christendom is celebrating its holiest of
weeks.
For days now flowers, leaves, life have
been appearing and reappearing upon the
earth. This week we observe the trials, the
temptations, and the death upon the cross
of Jesus Christ and after three days and
three nights His resurrection from the
Why they came
People who move to Griffin from other
places have interesting reasons. Some
have old ties here, others new jobs. Lots of
people come purely and simply because
they like the place and can work out of
Griffin instead of from Atlanta.
One couple who have lived here long
enough to be out of the “newcomer”
category and for the wife to be an alumnus
of the Newcomers Club came because they
liked it, they wanted to live in a smaller
community than Atlanta yet large enough
to provide good schools, recreation
facilities for their children and them
selves, and one with a strong identity of its
own. The clincher was this: The husband is
Wagon train
The Bicentennial Wagon Train is visiting
Griffin and is most welcome here. A major
project of the nation’s birthday, we are
glad it included us on its schedule and on
its route from Stone Mountain to Penn
sylvania.
Stuckey hangs it up
Congressman Bill Stuckey is the latest
Georgian to announce that he will not seek
reelection to Congress. Earlier Phil
Landrum who is the senior member from
this state and Bob Stephens who has a lot
of seniority announced they were retiring.
Stuckey is a younger member. He said he
had promised himself a while back that if
it got to the point that he could not devote
all his energies to representing his district
he would retire, and he wanted more time
with his family and for private pursuits so
he will step down.
Three of 10 Georgia members of the U.S.
House make a large percentage, almost a
third. The trend is not limited to Georgia
though, it is nationwide. Why are so many
congressmen quitting?
From where we sit it looks as if there are
several reasons, one of which is that
Congress is frustrating to its own mem-
Where is
paradise?
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: Where is
paradise? Is it a place for the soul to rest
till the resurrection? — J.P.
DEAR J.P.: The word “paradise” is
probably of Persian origin, and meant a
royal park. In Jewish literature, however,
it is used in a spiritual-symbolic sense,
meaning the place of happiness to be
inhabited by the righteous. The Garden of
Eden was a paradise of this kind (Genesis
2:8-17).
Christ used the word only once (Luke
23:43), when He told the penitent thief that
because of his faith, he would be with Him
in paradise. That’s one of the three times
Quimby Melton, Jr.
Telephone 227-031*
Fairness to all
Holy week
dead which brought the promise of life
' after death for all of us.
Nature itself seems this week to be
speaking to us with its own annual
resurrection, and it is a time of con
templation, of solemn gratitude, and of
great joy for all mankind.
the word appears in the New Testament.
Tlie last appearance is in the last book —
Revelation. It’s, as if John thought of
heaven as a restored Paradise. And even
since, in Christian devotional thought, the
word has come to mean “heaven.”
We can only surmise its real meaning. It
would seem to be a place of beauty, peace,
holiness and total fulfillment. Wherever it
is geographically, Jesus is there, and as
the source of all life, having Him leaves no
other need unsatisfied. If you mean
“heaven” by the term “paradise,” then it
is the abode of the soul following death,
both before and after the resurrection of
the body.
connected with a chain of stores which
does not have one in Griffin, but he can
travel from here as well as from some
other place, so he visited here. He saw a
house for sale which he liked, wanted some
pictures of it to show his wife but did not
have a camera. He went by Jim and Joe’s,
bought some film and asked about renting
a camera. He was told there would be no
charge, he was welcome to borrow one.
How about a deposit? The reply was no
deposit, glad to lend it to you.
He figured if people in Griffin could be
that helpful and nice to a stranger, this
was the place he wanted to live. How about
that?
Last night it presented a performance in
Fayette County, and we are told that it is
well worth seeing. It will be given tonight
at the encampment at the fairgrounds
starting at 7:30.
bers as well as to the voters who elect
them. Leadership of the House at best is
mediocre. Unelected staff members
operate too much of government, and
people back home are “fed up to here.”
While most individual congressmen
themselves still are regarded as “big
men”, the body they compose is held more
in public disgust these days than in
esteem.
Finally, although congressmen are paid
well and enjoy superior side benefits, too
much is expected of them by a public
which once accepted the fact that not even
a congressman is perfect. Consequently
lots of the better members are stepping
aside, and it remains to be seen whether
their replacements will be even equal to
them. The situation is not good for the
nation.
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Look! Look! There’s another car that doesn't
have a CB radio antenna!"
Ray Cromley
Carter’s contradiction:
talk small, plan big
By Ray Cromley
WASHINGTON — (NEAI — I went home the other day
much impressed with Jimmy Carter's attacks on big govern
ment and its bloated bureaucracy. His charges coincided
strongly with my own views after covering Washington these
past 30 years.
And apparently, if press reports are correct. Carter struck
fire on this issue in his string of primary victories. ,
For that reason I began collecting what I could of the Carter
speeches and other public statements to determine how this
persuasive candidate would go about unbloating the
bureaucracy and how he would cut big government to size
There was much talk in the Carter papers about zero
budgeting, justifying each program from scratch each year,
programs for consolidating bureaus and attacks on waste,
fumbling and inefficiency in a host of programs from welfare
to energy, unemployment and health.
Then came a series of astounding Carter proposals Each
would expand the federal role significantly in our lives. Com
bined. they add up to big government on a scale calculated to
make Hubert Humphrey green with envy.
Carter would put the importation of oil "under government
authority to allow strict control of purchases and the auc
tioning of purchase orders." If it became necessary,
petroleum supplies available for consumption should be
allocated by the Federal Energy Agency to the individual
states ' To control the consumption of energy, “standby taxes
should be available to the president for selective imposition on
petroleum products."
Carter proposes that "subsidized housing be re
established and establishment of a federal system of loan
guarantees for the purchase of low and medium-priced homes.
He wants federally mandated motor vehicle efficiency stan
dards., mandatory improvements in building insulation,
regulatory agency decisions that reduce fuel consumption and
federal standards set for the efficiency of electric appliances.
He would put a "fulltime federal employe, with full authori
ty to shut down the plant in case of any operational abnor
mality" in the control rooms of every private nuclear power
electricity generating plant
Though his language, typically, is vague to the point of fuz
ziness. Carter favors what appears to be a series of wide
ranging federal programs for creating jobs to rehabilitate the
railroads, “for completing our mass transit system," for
preventive health care and for stimulating employment in the
private solar heating industry
He wants the government to insure a job for every man and
woman willing to work If necessary, he says, as a last resort,
public employment jobs need to be created similar to the
CCC and the WPA during the Depression years."
Carter states that the bulk of the funds needed for most of
these programs could be secured by transferring money from
one civilian program or another — in transportation, energy
research and. apparently, in unemployment benefits, although
he does not directly say so.
I do not know how many jobs Carter has in mind. Typically,
he gives no figures on costs, or on the number of men and
women he'd put to work But considering the vigor of his at
tacks on unemployment and his conviction that the govern
ment has a basic obligation to insure jobs for all interested,
two million would be. I think a conservative figure in a nation
plagued with seven million unemployed
News reports have estimated the gross cost of creating two
million public-supported jobs at around $25 billion a year I
suggest this amount would be most difficult to scratch from
other civilian programs. So he's either snowing the public or
proposing big spending
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