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- Griffin Daily News Wednesday, April 14,1976
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L. M. BOYD
Argument over
beer pouring
Argument continues over whether beer should be poured
into a glass or drunk straight from its container. One set of ex
perts insists the pouring to put a thick white head on it im
proves the flavor. Another set claims the pouring tends to flat
ten it slightly. I know of no authority who can settle this
question with a certainty. Do you?
Was none other than Friedrich Nietzsche who said: "There
are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes
woman because she is the most dangerous of playthings." Our
Love and War man notes that the Nietzsche observation dates
back to before the liberation.
SPAGHETTI
Q." How many feet of spaghetti in a pound of same?"
A. About 320, typically.
The marketing boys insist that more teenage girls use hand
cream even than lipstick.
Credit Eugene Wood with the observation: "It is agreed by
all, I think, that the happiest periods in a man's life are his
boyhood and about 10 years from now."
Those women who know best how to make beds are
thought to be the maids retrained by motel managers. Or so re
ports a hostelry executive. Not one woman in 100 he says,
does the job properly, unless retrained.
Please, what do those people who collect matchbook covers
call themselves?
PURPLE PERSPIRATION
In his novel "The Sun Also Rises," Ernest Hemingway
described a waiter who exuded purple perspiration. A literary
student asks if such is a medical possibility. It happens, though
rarely. The records show a -37-year-old woman in Defiance,
Ohio, likewise perspired purple. Examining doctors called the
condition "chromidrosis."
Figure the average grownup carts around about eight
pounds of skin.
The highly popular house plant called the geranium started
out not hereabouts but in South Africa and Australia.
Seventy-five per cent of all the earth's fresh water is frozen
up in ice caps and glaciers. A lot of water, that. Melted down,
it would be equal to how much flows in all the earth's rivers
for about 1,000 years. ,• •
During World War 11, U. S. Army researchers checked out
the foot measurements of 100,000 soldiers. To learn that more
than 53,000 of them made footprints between 11 and 12
inches long. According to the record, that's the length of the
footprints supposedly left in the Tibetan Himalayas by the
Abominable Snowman.
Address mill to L. M. Boyd, P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102
Copyright 1976 L. M. Boyd
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For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Wednesday, April
14, the 105th day of 1976 with
261 to follow.
The moon is full.
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.
British Antarctic explorer Sir
James Clark was born April 14,
1800. This is the 51st birthday of
actor'Rod Steiger.
On this day in history:
In 1861, the flag of the
Confederacy was raised over
Ft Sumter, S.C., as Union
troops there surrendered.
In 1865, John Wilkes Booth
crept into the box of President
Abraham Lincoln at Ford
theater in Washington and shot
him. Lincoln died the next
morning.
In 1910, President William
Howard Taft set a precedent by
throwing out the first baseball
to open the major league
season.
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Shopping guide. Along with seasonal
news of products and time-saving
tips, advertising offers loads of gift
suggestions. And classified ads help
you raise extra cash by quickly sell
ing unused items around your
home.
Thoughts
“Truly I say to you, this
generation will not pass away
til) all has taken place.
Heaven and earth will pass
away, but my words will not
pass away.” — Luke 21: 32,33.
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We’re
Listening
Honest man
Dear Sir: Monday night, (last week) I
went to the Bank of Griffin to make a
deposit and while there I lost two five
dollar bills. I left the bank not realizing
this and went to K-Mart. When I got out of
the car some very nice man walked up to
me and asked me if I had just left the Bank
of Griffin. I replied yes and he told me that
I had dropped two fives and he returned
them.
I was so stunned that I couldn’t thank
him properly. Now through this paper I
would like to thank him for being so honest
and hope that God will repay him for his
honesty and kindness. Again thanks a lot
(Signed) Fannie Whidby, 521 North 16th
Street
RESPONSE: Great! Thank you for
sharing this experience.
Senate bill
Dear Editor: At a recent meeting of the
Griffin Board of Realtors, Senate Bill S.
1284 was discussed by Frank Harris a
member of the Boards Political Affairs
Committee requesting members of the
Board and the public to write Senator
Herman E. Talmadge and Senator Sam A.
Nunn asking in May that they cast a “no”
vote on this bilL.a bill designed to allow
any state attorney general to bring an anti
trust suit against any business in the state,
collect treble damage by the state without
proof of either the fact or amount of any
individual injury to any person.
Harris said that it would appear that the
cost of a business defending itself against a
suit filed by irresponsible parties with no
legal expenses involved on their part could
spell bankruptcy to any business so
designated.
The speaker noted that the House had
passed this bill and also noted that John J.
Flynt, Jr. voted against it
In the opinion of this committee the
present federal anti-trust laws are suf
ficient and that to pass another bill would
give the federal bureaucracy and non
elected regulators further opportunity to
supress private enterprise. (Signed) Joy
D. Merriam, Chairman, Political Affairs
Committee
P.S. The full Bill is available upon
request.
Dramatics
Dear Friends: The Griffin High School
Dramatics Club wants to take this op
portunity to express its deepest ap
preciation to the members of the Griffin
Community who made this year’s
production of “You Can’t Take It With
You” possible. The cast and crew mem
bers learned many things from this
valuable experience, and we wish to thank
those who helped us by providing financial
support, needed properties, advertising,
and by rendering special services.
Thank you. (Signed) With love and
appreciation, The 1976 G.H.S. Dramatics
Club.
Book Fair
Dear Editor: The American Association
of University Women wishes to express
our appreciation to the Griffin Daily News
for the publicity it gives regarding our
Should churches
include patriotism?
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: Do you believe
the celebration of the Bicentennial In our
churches should Include patriotism or love
of country as a theme? — T.O.
DEAR T. 0.: We live in a country where
there is very properly the separation of
church and state in civil affairs. Yet our
founding fathers never intended that
matters of faith be so totally removed
from the state that utter secularism would
result.
If it is proper in our churches to express
gratitude, and it is, then there’s room for
expressing thanks to God for a nation
conceived in liberty. The Bible counsels us
‘The voice
of Griffin ’
Letters
The Griffin Daily News welcomes letters
g to the editor and features them on this S
page every Wednesday. •:•:
Here are the ground rules:
All must be signed and include the £
g writer’s address. We may withhold a name :•:•
S upon request, but only with the un- £
g derstanding that we will provide it to
■:< anyone with a good reason for asking. We S
will not withhold a name signed to any :$
S letter critical of any individual.
Letters concerning race, creed or
religion are not acceptable. Nor are letters ?•:
■i for or against political candidates.
organization. We say an extra “thank you”
for the one about our Book Fair. Our
organization has never undertaken a
project of this size before. There are many
local branches of A.A.U.W. who have this
as a yearly project We believe that the
Griffin branch can do as well or better with
your help. We are already off to an ex
cellent start having collected over 400
hard-back and paper-back books plus
many copies of National Geographic
magazines, some as far back as 15 years.
The collection boxes will remain at all
schools and banks until the day of sales,
April 24, Saturday. Here we need you
again. The sale will begin at 10 a.m. until
(all are sold) at Spalding Square in front of
Rose’s. You will be glad if you come shop
for there will be reading material for all,
especially children’s books. With the
money made from the sale the A.A.U.W.
hopes to make a helpful contribution to the
community.
One project that the A.A.U.W. has had
from its beginning is an annual luncheon —
this luncheon always features a speaker
who is both informative and inspirational.
This year we are extremely fortunate for
our speaker is to be Senator Virginia
Shapard. All members wish their invited
guests will be at the Western Sizzler on
Saturday, May Ist 12:30, noon. This
meeting will be the climax of the year.
Thank you again for your cooperation,
we couldn’t do it without you. Sincerely,
(Signed) Thelma F. Davis, Publicity
Chairman, A.A.U.W. Book Fair
RESPONSE: You are welcome.
Note
NOTE TO “PLEASE WITHHOLD MY
NAME": Sorry, but letters about race
and-or religion are not acceptable. Hope
you understand and that you will write us
again on some subject which we can
publish in this space. Thanks.
Another note
NOTE TO VICKI SMITH: Since you
provided neither your address nor your
phone number this is the only way we know
to answer your questions. You sent a letter
written by someone in Atlanta, said it was
sent to us and asked why we did not publish
it. The answer is because we give priority
to letters from people in Griffin, Spalding
and surrounding counties. Atlanta has two
regular and any number of other papers to
which Atlanta peqple can write. Your
letter was postmarked Griffin and if you
do live here and will provide your address
and phone number, we will be glad to print
your letter if you, yourself write one and
stick to the rules. But letters must be
addressed to us and not be mere
enclosures of letters addressed to others.
Also you asked, “Don’t you feel your
readers are entitled to both sides of an
issue?” Answer: Yes indeed we do.
to “honor the government’’ (1 Peter 2:17
Living Bible). And Paul said we should
“Pray... for... a11... who are in authority
over us’’ (I Timothy 2:2 Living Bible).
Perhaps the greatest expression the
Bicentennial can have will be in the in
terest and support of our churches. I
believe God will honor America to the
extent it honors God — and recognizes Him
as the source of all our blessings. What a
year this would be if American churches
led the way in a revival of spirituality! It
could stem the tide of evil, and rpise our
society to really be a “nation under God.”
Let’s pray that it will happen.
MV
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Jimmy Carter!"
By Don Oakley
Don Oakley
Work-study rescues
stagnating seniors
It may be questioned whether high school students today are
learning more or less or as much as kids did in the old days,
but they are learning it faster.
Where it used to be the rule that students carried a full
schedule of studies right through the last year of high school,
in many cases they are now completing their graduation re
quirements early in the senior year and even in the junior
year.
Thus they are forced to stay in a “holding pattern," as
Education USA newsletter describes it, and this has given rise
to a malaise called “senioritis. ” For both college-bound
students and soon-to-be job hunters, the senior year can be
“boring beyond belief,”, says New York State Commissioner
of Education Ewald Nyquist.
In the search for a cure for “senioritis,” high schools across
the country are pushing, or being pulled, toward new options
for 12th graders, reports Education USA. These range from
early graduation to college courses in high school to indepen
dent study projects to apprenticeship or work-study
programs.
The latter is an increasingly popular option, particularly for
students who don’t plan to go on to college. Students work,
part-time, usually for no pay, with professionals or craftsmen
in a variety of fields. Some students use the opportunity to find
out about different occupations, while others get a head start
on a chosen career.
A similar but more academically structured program is
“Experience-Based Career Education," devised by the
National Institute of Education. In this program, students pick'
a career area that interests them, such as health, banking or
law.
During an initial 12-week exploration phase, a student may
work in a hospital or in police headquarters or perhaps follow
a civil case at a private law firm. The student then concen
trates on one particular job for the next 12 weeks, thereby
gaining both a general knowledge of a career field and specific
knowledge of one aspect of it.
One Long Island high school offers college-credit courses to
its otherwise "stagnating” seniors. And in yet another ap
proach to “senioritis,” California has instituted a proficiency
test which permits a 16- or 17-year-old who passes it to leave
school with a high school diploma.
We will no doubt be hearing about many more such in
novations.
Language bank
Every large city has a blood bank, but Cleveland, Ohio,
seems to be the first to have instituted a language bank.
Begun in 1974, the Language Bank of Cleveland makes
available to the entire metropolitan area volunteer linguists
who are adept at some 46 major languages and dialects of the
world on a 24-hour basis. The purpose is to meet a growing
language need in emergency situations.
The bank was started by two Cleveland women, Betsy
Schrader and Sara Robechek, who met four years ago while
tutoring foreign doctors and their families in English. They
began by asking Cleveland State University to conduct a
study, from which it was learned that there are 14 groups in
* the city numbering 10,000 or more who speak a language other*
than English. • •
Since Cleveland by virtue of the St. Lawrence Seaway is a
world port, there are frequent emergency calls for language
services for visiting seamen and other visitors.
The Language Bank of Cleveland has had many inquiries
from other cities and a national program may be begun based
on Cleveland’s system.
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